Taira Nishizawa Ota house

part of "Raumplan" analyses too

bernhard

a photo

again, more info please

did you quote terrible?
then if You are moderator - You can throw it out NP

bernhard

Taira Nishizawa
1964 born in Tokyo
1987 graduation Tokyo Institut of Technology
-1993 working for architect Kei-ichi Irie
1993 own office
Teaching at Tokyo Rika University and Nihon University

http://www.minihaeuser.de/index2.html

House Ota
"One challenge facing Nishizawa was how to best utilize the narrow nature of the plot of land which, with the completion of an office building to the south, was soon be surrounded by buildings on all sides. He resolved this by constructing a house that, although limited in width, creates a feeling of space through its unusually far-reaching length. The feeling of space is further enhanced by positioning the larger windows high in the rooms, allowing light in but keeping any potential unsightly intrusions out (a simple but very effective idea that appears in a number of his buildings). Lower down the walls, smaller windows also let the sun in, allowing for a playful treatment of light throughout the interior."

Adolf Loos



1870 born in Brünn
1893 - 1996 Studies in Dresden, some time in USA
1899 Architect. Cafe Museum in Vienna
1910 Haus am Michaelerplatz in Wien
1912 own privat building school in Wien
1917 in the war for Österreich-Ungarn
1932 Wiener Werkbundsiedlung
1933 died in Wien

"My architecture is not conceived in plans, but in spaces (cubes). I do not design floor plans, facades, sections. I design spaces. For me, there is no ground floor, first floor etc.... For me, there are only contiguous, continual spaces, rooms, anterooms, terraces etc. Storeys merge and spaces relate to each other. Every space requires a different height: the dining room is surely higher than the pantry, thus the ceilings are set at different levels. To join these spaces in such a way that the rise and fall are not only unobservable but also practical, in this I see what is for others the great secret, although it is for me a great matter of course. Coming back to your question, it is just this spatial interaction and spatial austerity that thus far I have best been able to realise in Dr Müller's house"

Adolf Loos, Shorthand record of a conversation in Plzeň (Pilsen), 1930

The Raumplan is manifested for example in the semidetached houses of the werkbundsiedlung in Vienna 1930 – 32: (together with Kulka Heinrich)

In the werbundsiedlung entrance has 2meters high (the same this Galerie) – so Living space is 4meters – and that was the point leading me to Taira Nishizawa

For Loos the clear cubus was his aim

So – I dare to say – the here admired Pezo Von Ellrichshausen arquitectos - POLI HOUSE – Coliumo is in direct tradition of Adolph Loos and his "Raumplan"

And by scanning the www – I found the link from Nishizawa to Werkbundsiedlung and Loos:

Competition Werkbundsiedlung Wiesenfeld September 2005

Form 36 woldwide invited Participants at this competition one was Taira Nishizawa

on e thing i still wonder - what`s the purpose of the middle uppest room - and what`s the entree?


and th only reason, why this gentleman hanging around in this japanese minihouses looks a bit severe... is, that he`s never shure of his Head`s distance to the ceiling ;)


bernhard

Wow that section really shows the compression in the circulation space. What is the height of that figure on the upper floor?

on e thing i still wonder - what`s the purpose of the middle uppest room - and what`s the entree?

you mean the "spare room"? I think it can even work as a balcony - for drying clothes etc... but who knows:wondering maybe it's something similar to Terunobu Fujimori's tearooms...

It can be accessed by a ladder through a manhole in the floor. It's evident from the plans in the pdf in the appraised UME magazine (http://www.umemagazine.com/) (#15)! (thanks again Paul P!)

As I measured the room of taulajoes model is 1.90m; the man about 1.88. I would be interested in (a) floor plan (s) and so the connection, the link between the interesting section and the whole house. But I know that the house is small. I recognised your link and all house are interesting and small.
How comes the guy up to the floor- that interests me!
What about the whole model. I think- just a part needs to be added- because the building is so small.

In the UME there are plans.
The connection to Loos and "his most beautiful house" (Loos about Villa Müller)
is good. Last year I saw it in place in Praha.
Also the connection to the PolyHouse is not far.

the figure is me :)

1.90m

bernhard

I constructed the fassade with help of fotos - (no one for the "backside")
so it`s still unfinished :( -